Review - The Mercury Masters: Antal Dorati in London
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
The Naxos Szymanowski series continues its estimable task of placing relatively familiar major works in appropriate but less familiar contexts....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2009
Jake Heggie is the kind of composer that musical theatre – and I make no distinction between musicals and opera...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2010
Regular readers of Gramophone may be surprised to encounter ‘official’ CDs featuring a conductor who compared making records...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
This recording complements Cherkassky’s 1994 studio performance of Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto (made when he was 85) with a selection...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996
Here are two performances that I think are of unequal quality. Rubinstein obviously felt at home when recording with Wallenstein,...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988
Ludwig Minkus may have been no Delibes or Tchaikovsky, but he does not deserve the disparaging comments that have often...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995
Paul Patterson, longtime professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, is here celebrated in recordings of three major...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011
Despite a certain in-built incongruity, harpsichords (even modern instruments, by the sound of them) partnered in Bach by an orchestra...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1998
The focus here is on the ceremonial music of Wagner’s years in Dresden, that highly unstable time in the 1840s...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1997
The occasion captured on this live 1969 recording from the Mozarteum in Salzburg was planned specifically for young people who...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2000
Rob Cowan dips into the latest Eloquence collections of the conductor’s recordings
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
This compact, all-in-one hi-fi package from Pro-Ject strips away the system-matching fuss,...
‘There is very little comfort here for anyone who regards music as an ennobling or humanising force’
Andrew Farach-Colton enjoys a sumptuous set of the Japanese conductor’s recordings
Rob Cowan on sets honouring a composer anniversary and a Croatian conductor
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